Angelo Embuldeniya

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SAP; Computer Software industry

May 2010 – October 2011 (1 year 6 months) Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Talent Acquisition Lead for the Field Services organization (also known as SAP Consulting) at SAP.

As a senior member of the SAP EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) Recruiting Team in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), I played an important role in ensuring the delivery of a quick, pin-pointed and world class recruiting service to sustain the demands of hiring within a customer oriented organization with a strong focus on delivery excellence.

Primarily, I was responsible for the recruitment of all lines of business (Lob) across Field Services at SAP, which comprised consulting, support, sales and other related functions located within the region while also having worked closely with various country teams on cross-board recruiting.

I owned the recruiting service delivery to allocated Hiring Managers, ensured the right hire is made in line with global and local policy and best practice in partnership with the Human Resources Business Partner.

The secondary role I was tasked with was that of an advisor to the hiring managers in helping them through the specialist activity of recruiting and as a custodian for SAP to ensure the right hire is made in line with organizational needs.

From a delivery management perspective, I ran the recruitment project; from point of hiring approval, led manager consultation, formulated the recruitment strategy and managed it's execution through sourcing, shortlisting, interviewing, hiring decisions, offer management to offer acceptance and on-boarding.

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

November 2009 – May 2011 (1 year 7 months)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2009 – May 2010 (7 months) Kingdom of Bahrain

The Global Strategic Sourcing Team at HP's Global Staffing Organization comprises of a dedicated 30-person team selected from the company's most talented staffing teams who are dispersed geographically around the globe and are connected simultaneously across 3 continents (Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific & Japan, and the Americas). This dedicated team is part of the Recruitment 2.0 program at Hewlett-Packard where our strategy is strongly focused on improving the quality of talent hired while maintaining operational efficiency.

I was the Sourcing Lead on the Global Strategic Sourcing Team and was responsible for the MEMA (Middle East, Mediterranean & Africa) sub-region and worked closely with my colleagues from the EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa) Regional Sourcing Team.

Some of my responsibilities were:

- Engaging with the EMEA Strategic Sourcing Champion and the business to understand critical demand, defining and developing robust sourcing strategies with regional staffing teams and Managers for the MEMA region and identifying pivotal roles for focus

-Building a pipeline of top talent against critical profiles and maintaining a close relationship with high-end talent

- Providing SME (Subject Matter Expert) consultancy to both business and staffing key partners at country and sub-regional level.

- Facilitates cooperation across HP internal teams (Global Business Services, Executive Staffing, Talent Management and Recruiting) in order to ensure the sourcing process is effective.

- Maintaining a strong engagement with Country Staffing teams

- Develops and maintains effective networks (e.g. job fairs, on campus, at events including conferences and trade-shows) to maximize visibility and attract top quality candidates.

- Ensuring local staffing practices are compliant with global/regional initiatives & legal requirements, and meet business priorities such as workforce redeployment and reduction, university hiring and diversity.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

July 2008 – May 2010 (1 year 11 months) Kingdom of Bahrain

Part of HP's Global Strategic Sourcing Team

Internal Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard for the Middle East, Mediterranean, Africa while being responsible for Enterprise Services (Consulting & Integration) within HR program management.


Recognition @HP Brand Ambassador

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

October 2006 – 2009 (3 years) Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UAE

HP Enterprise Business (formerly HP Technology Solutions Group)
HP Services (former HP Consulting & Integration and EDS)

Nonprofit; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

June 2002 – December 2009 (7 years 7 months)

INGOs / NGOs / CBOs / NPOs at which I have consulted for include, but are not limited to, the following:

United Nations Agencies:
-UNDP
-UNJLC
-UNEP
-UNESCO
-UNDAC
-UNOCHA
-WFP
-UNHCR
-UNV (OV)
-UNOPS
-FAO
-ITU
-ILO
-WHO
-World Bank

MapAction UK, Telecoms Sans Frontiers, RedCross, Save the Children, MSF, etc.


Field/Mission Locations I would consider assignments include:

-Afghanistan
-Iraq
-Kosovo
-Congo
-Sudan
-Somalia
-Rwanda
-Yemen
-Burma (Myanmar)
-Cambodia
-Sierra Leone
-Haiti
-Syria
-Chad

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

August 2006 – October 2007 (1 year 3 months) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain

Atos Origin (global) divested their Middle East operations (Atos Origin Middle East Group) in 2006 to the management in the Middle East & North Africa, after which the company was subsequently acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP global) in October 2007.


HP press release about this acquisition:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/071022a.html

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry

January 2006 – May 2006 (5 months)

Developing the IT infrastructure in a secure manner and implementing web-based projects of varying scope.

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry

2005 – 2006 (1 year)

Nonprofit; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

April 2005 – July 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Responsible for providing first-hand information on the disaster situation and priority needs of the victims to the international community through United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and Virtual Operations Coordination Centre (VOSOCC) while coordinating with local and international search and rescue (ISAR) operation of international SAR teams together with the national authorities of the affected country.

December 2004 – May 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Comprehensive database management and migration from text-based data sources and telecom system pools to dynamic database solutions while developing brand strategy and decision support systems.

September 2002 – December 2005 (3 years 4 months)

Designed and implemented a Content Management Server while analyzing the “As is” state of the system for the International Students Office and suggested a “To be” state of the system at the university. Researched various topics of different scales for the IT and Business Departments while providing assistance to the Chair of each department in terms of technical advisories and implementations.

Nonprofit; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

December 2004 – April 2005 (5 months) Thailand, Sri Lanka